[CAUT] RE : String breakage, WAS unusual repair

[Marcel Carey]

This reminds me the time I was sent by Yamaha Canada to check the
regulation of a 2 years old C-2. The customer was complaining about
broken strings and wanted them to be replaced on warranty. When I got
there, the father expalined that it was his son that was the pianist and
he introduced me to his son. The son told me who he was studying with
and then just like this he said that he had the technique that allowed
him to break stings at will. He said this in front of his disbelieved
father. You should have seen the look his father gave him... Yamaha paid
me for the string replacement and some voicing and regulation, but the
father was warned that these were the last strings that were warrantied.

Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC
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> Wim:
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> Teaching style!  Our piano artist-in-residence emphasizes 
> forte playing. His reasoning is that your piano means nothing 
> if your forte isn't forte. If you're going to have a wide 
> dynamic range you have to have a real forte! You can only 
> play so softly in a recital hall (unless you don't want to be
> heard) so your pianissimo is really only piano.  To have some 
> range your fortissimo has to be fortissississimo.  Playing in 
> that range will break strings.  He does, his students do.  
> His students also win competitions and do well.  I think he 
> and I agree that his job is to teach students to win 
> competitions and launch successful performing careers and my 
> job is to repair the damage.  
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> dave
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